Original Title
Da Mumbo Jumbo blev kæmpestor
Genre
3D Animation
(based on a book)
Status
Pre-production
Expected Completion Year
2025
Country of Origin
Danmark
Language Spoken
English dub
Length
78-82 min TBC
Director
Karsten Kiilerich
Scriptwriter
Karsten Kiilerich
Based on a book by Jakob Martin Strid
Production Company
A. Film Production
Producer
Anders Mastrup
Release Date
TBC 2025 by Nordisk Film
When Mumbo Jumbo magically grows to giant size, he has to go on a dangerous journey with his three friends, to find the scary witch Baba Yaga so she can turn him small again. It is an adventurous journey which might make Mumbo Jumbo small again, but a whole lot bigger on the inside.
A. Film Production A/S is located in Copenhagen, Århus & Viborg in Denmark. It is one of Scandinavia’s most prolific animation companies. A. Film Production’s CGI and classically animated feature films and TV series have found large audiences throughout the past 30 years.
Anders Mastrup co-founded A. Film Production in 1988. Since then he has produced some of the most loved and highest grossing Danish and European animation features like Help! I’m a Fish (2000), Terkel in Trouble (2004), Asterix and the Vikings (2005), Niko and the Way to the Stars (2008), Olsen Gang gets Polished (2010), The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear (2017) and Checkered Ninja (2018).
In 1988 Karsten Kiilerich founded A. Film with four other partners. Kiilerich has a background as an animator. For the past 20 years he has been working as a director, concept developer and creative producer, making feature films and TV series. Kiilerich has won a large number of international film prizes, and was Oscar nominated in 1999 with his animated short When Life Departs. Other titles include Up & Away, The Ugly Duckling and Me and The Little Vampire.
Notes from the director Karsten Kiilerich:
The meeting with Baba Jaga should just be viewed as an animation and image test. Several elements will be improved and changed when the scene is done for the final version of the film. Changes can include the animation, set up of the scene, grooming of the character’s fur and the light and tone, which will probably be darker. The test of course still gives a clear impression of the characters and the plot.
Jakob Martin Strid (b. 1972) is a renowned, award-winning author and illustrator with a large number of published children’s books, including the recent bestsellers Mumbo Jumbo, Mimbo Jimbo Builds a Lighthouse, Mimbo Jimbo and the Long Winter and The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear. Strid’s books have sold across the world, and The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear has been published in more than 20 languages. It has also been turned into an animated film and a very successful play adapted by Erland Loe. Strid’s books for children are international bestsellers: unique, poetic, funny, wise and universal.
These results are from an analysis done by The Danish Film Institute in collaboration with the analysis bureau Norstat. The goal was to research the potential of making the book into a film, as well as get a better understanding of the target audience.
Completion:
Data collection made in April 2021 via the internet (CAWI) with baseline in Norstat’s panel in Denmark.
Target audience:
The research was done among children in the age group 4-11 years old and their parents, via email send-outs to people who are part of the Norstat panel. 808 interviews have been concluded among the children and the same equivalent among the parents.
*The examiners have aspired to have an equal distribution on gender and age in all the ages (4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 year old) as well as striving towards being as geographically representative as possible.
